LiTEKATtmE. — Benzinffer, Ueb. Arch. p. 364 ff.; Nowack. Lehrbuch der lleb. Arch. p. 348ff. ; Jacobs, Studiejt in liil'liral Arcliaotoijy, p. 48iY. See alao Sandav-Hcadlain on Ro 8'2 17 . ncysclilBii, ST Theot. i. 3SS t., ii. 340 ; Weiss, Dibl. Throt. of -NT, Index; Westcott, Hebrews, 167-169. W. H. BENNETT.
HELAH (nx'-n ' rust '?).— One of the wives of Ashhur the 'father' of Tekoa, 1 Ch 4»- '. See Genealogy.
HELAM (cS-n, in 2 S 10" vrith n locale .itN^n and the Massoretic note .■< Tn'. Budde, however, main- tains that cnhn is the correct form). — The Aram- ieans from beyond the river,* «hora Hadarezer summoned to his aid, came to Helara (2 S 10") and were there met and defeated by David (v."'-). As far as the form of the word is concerned, cS-r: in V." might mean 'their army' (so Aq. if Svyd/ia avTup, followed by Thenius). There can, however, be little doul.t that the LXX (AiXoM), Pesh. and Targ. are right in taking it as a proper name (so Ewald, Ifist. lii. 155 n. 2; Bertheau, Wellh., Driver, Biulde, Kittel). Cornill, upon the ground of the LXX "ilXid/x, introduces Helam also in Ezk 47" (cf. also Bertholet, ad loc.). In this case it must liave lain on the border between Damascus and Hamath. J. A. Selrie.
HELBAH (n;^n).— A town of Asher, Jg 1". Its identity is quite uncertain. (For various attempts to fix its site, see Moore, ad loc.].
HELBON (pa^n). — A place from which wine was brought to Tyre, Ezk 27". It is the modern IJalhCin on the east slope of AntUebanon, aljout 13 miles N. of Damascus. The region around, on Hernion and the Antilebanon, is remarkable for its vineyards to the present day. The wine of Helbon IS mentioned also in the cuneiform texts, and the Persian kings are said to have preferred it to any other. It has sometimes been wrongly supposed that Helbon is to be identified witn Aleppo.
LlTKRATURB. — RobinsoD, BRP^ iii. 471 f. ; Del. Paradiet, 281 ; Welzstein, ZDilU xi. (1867) 490 S. ; Baetlckcr-Socin, Pal. 341 ; Sohrader, COTt ii. 121 ; Bertholet on Ezk ST'S.
C. R. Conder.
HELDAI (l^n; B XoX8«d, A XoXSaO.— 1. The captain of the military guard appointed for the twelfth monthly cour.'se of the temple service ( 1 Ch 27"). He Is probably to be identified with ' Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite,' one of David's thirty heroes (2 S 23-» ; A "AXd0, B omits). In the parallel list (1 Ch ll*" ; B Xfldoa, A Xod55 and 'EXdS) the name is more correctly Iven as Heled. "The form Ileldai is supported ly Zee 6'° (see below), and should probably be restored in the other two passages.
2. According to Zee 6™, one of a small band who brought gifts of gold and silver from Babylon to those of the exiles who had returned under
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Zonibtialicl. From these gifts Zeclmriah was biiidun til make a crown for Josluia the higli piient, which was to be [ilaced in the temple as a nieiiuirial of IleKiai and his companions. In V." Helem (o^n) is clearly an error for Heldai ; the IVshii ta in both places reads Holdai or Huldai {^ - Vn ...)■ J. F. Stenning.
HELEB (3.^0 2 S 23=^').— See Heldai 1.
HELED {ibo 1 Ch 11*>).— See Heldai 1. '
HELEK {phn ' portion '). — Son of Gilead the Manassite, Nu 26=", Jos 17'^ P. Patronymic, Hele- kites, Nu 20*'.
HELEM.— 1. (c^n) A man of Asher, 1 Ch 7*>. •The n.-ime must lie altered to Do^n (v.'-) to tit the context ; otherwise we should have ohn in v.^ in- stead of Dn'in' (Kittel in SHOT). 2. (c^i^) An exile who was sent from Babylon with gifts of gold and ailver for the sanctuary at Jerusalem, Zee G". He is called in v.'" Heldai {'Z^n). LXX has toU uirofxi- i/ovcif, not treating this and other nouns in the same passage as proper names.
HKLEPH (i^n). — A town on the border of Naplitali, Jos 19". Although mentioned in the Talmud (Mi'gillah i. 1, see Neubauor, G6ug. d. Xaim. 224), Ueleph has not been identified.
HELEZ {xhT} 'vigour'; B 2/\\i)!, A 'EXXt,?, Luc. XdXXTjs). — 1. One of David's thirty heroes (2 S 23"). He is described as * the Paltite,' i.e. a native of Beth-pelet in the Negeb of Judah (cf. Jos ir)--?, Neh 11-''). But in the two parallel lists (1 Ch 11-'' and 27">) both the Hebrew text and the LXX (4 'ieKujvei ; 6 (k <I'a\Xoi/s) read ' the Pelon- ite,' a variant which is supported by cod. A at 2 S 23^ (i <l'fXXu>'f( ; B reads A KfX^Bd) ; the former reading is further inconsistent with 1 Ch 27'", where Helez is expressly designated as 'of the children of Ephraini.' From the latter passage we learn that lie was in command of the military guard appointed for the seventh monthly course of the temple service. See PeloNITE.
2. A Judahite, 1 Ch 2^. J. F. Stennino.
HELI Cn\(l = Heb. 'H:). — 1. The father of Joseph, in the genealogy of Jesus, Lk 3'^. 2. An ancestor of Ezra, 2 Es l\ Omitted in parallel passages, 1 Es 8', Ezr 7*- *. See Genealogy.